Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different times; there would be interference, hence black lines and light fringes visible in the instrument. With this second result, it would be apparent that something impeded the light going in one direction-the movement of the earth (as the Einstein theory foretells would be the case) or the drift of the ether (according to the ether drift theory...
...southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture was one of the causes of his bankruptcy...
Last week, came the news by wireless from the Maud, relayed via Christiania, that she had met with misadventure, had failed to get into the drift across the pole, was returning. Furthermore, she had sprung a small leak and was almost out of fuel oil, so that she will be compelled to use her sails to complete her return. Another blow at Amundsen...
...good deal of Nell Gwynn's posthumous reputation is due to her identification with the Protestant cause and the political drift which later crystallized into the Whig Party...
...example", said Professor Babbitt, "anyone can convince himself of the startling relevancy to existing conditions of Aristotle's 'Politics', especially now that we have begun to slip our constitutional moorings and to drift towards a direct democracy. There are passages in it as modern as the morning newspaper, and at least a hundred times more sensible. Take the passage: 'Such legislation (against private property) may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils...